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The company, the world's biggest furniture retailer, which is an unlisted, family-owned company that only recently began releasing more regular earnings reports, said around 4.6 percent of its growth came from existing stores after adjusting for currency changes.

"Some of the biggest growth was in China, Russia and Poland, but the US and Germany also had significant growth," Ohlsson said.

Europe accounted for 70 percent of sales, while North America stood for 16 percent and Russia and Asia and Australia made up the remaining 14 percent.

The Ikea Group opened 11 new stores in nine countries in the period. At the end of the year, it had a total of 298 stores in 26 countries.

Traffic to its website rose by 21.8 percent to more than a billion visits.

Ikea, which sparked controversy last year when women were removed from the pages of its Saudi Arabian catalogue, also said it had launched "a common diversity and inclusion approach."

"Today, almost half of our 17,000 managers are women, and our co-workers come from all cultural and educational backgrounds," the company said.